DETROIT --
The fate of Detroit's Cobo Center remains in limbo as city council politics debate what to do with the crumbling structure.
But classic car owners and visitors to Autorama this weekend voiced their lack in patience as rain overwhelmed the tarps already hanging from Cobo's ceiling to collect water from melting snow -- creating dripping.
Leaky Cobo Dampens Autorama
On Saturday, pricey classic cars were on display at Cobo for the show. Hot rod owners who obsess over the slightest detail of their cars were irate.
"I'm cleaning, this beautiful '59 Galaxy 500, that took us 20 years to build, because Cobo is leaky nasty stuff from the ceiling. I mean this is salt water, it's rust, it's disgusting," said Roy Oberg.
"You know, I have a $50,000 car here. And this is what I come to get," added Tony Delmora.
WWJ RADIO (AM950) Beth Fisher
David7750 comments:
Detroit City Council should be required and must hold all of their future Coucil meetings at Cobo Hall, under tarps collecting rain water and corrosive liquids leaking thru the ceiling.
The Council must walk thru the crumbling loading docks, down to the deporable disgusting basement, walk up (because the escalators aren't always working) to Cobo Halls. The must sit and ponder - What should we do? What should we do?
Autorama, a premier Cobo event, visitors - and exhibitors saw the tarps, dodged the rain drops and wiped rain and corrosive liquids off their beloved customized, collectible and expensive vehicles - probably wondering - why are we here? They may not return.
WWJ radio (am950) reported on the tarps, rain drops and the escalators. What kind of image does that give Detroit?
Roger Weber of WDIV (Chl 4) has done a story on the crumbling loading docks, the downstairs area and the leaking ceilings, in a very visible horrorfying story of neglect and decay.
The City Council may win their battle with the Mayor, in court, but their is no real assurances that the regional plan for Cobo will be renogiatied - so what will the Council - win - a deplorable 'a jewel of the city', a convention facility that they can't afford to repair or afford to subsidize. A facility that more and more conventions will ignore, and reject.
If the City Council wins - the Detroit Metropolitan Area LOSES.
The Rock Financial Center (Novi) should expand, and then use buses to transport exhibitors and visitors to its modern facility, as buses were used to transport people to Detroit from the surrounding areas.
Pontiac, the Big 4 and the Governor, should consider using the Silverdome as a convention anchor for a convention, retail and hotel hub. Oakland County is the economic center of region. A more centered area, safer area with less baggage than Detroit. Even in this hard economic times it would make sense to build a new convention center in this area - leaving Cobo to attract smaller boutique conventions - after it is rehabed and refurbished - $288 million isn't enough to expand.
Novi or Pontiac - maybe regional cooperation can decide what's the best location for a new convention area. Now is the time to decide.
ps. mayber Windsor, Canada should be exploring expanding the convention facilities it has...its just a short bus ride across the border. Maybe conventioneers will have a better time South of the Border - Canadian style.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
SAVE DETROIT TIGER STADIUM, MCPP MISTATEMENTS - FUNDING, DONATE AND SUPPORT...LEAVE COMMENTS..
Comments about Michael LaFaive of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy - ignorant comments, about Tiger Stadium - federal funding - David Malhalab ***********************************************************************************
I do not appreciate you calling supporters of a restored Navin Field or those who understand the meaning that the stadium carries in the historic fabric of the City and the State thief's. It is both classless and unprofessional but I have come to expect such from most every individual who feels the need to put in his/her 2 cents yet never contributed a second of research to back their opinion.
I'm sorry John Gallagher chose to contact your organization for comment but then I've already given him my opinion of his story. Since my family and I have contributed nearly $500,000 dollars over the past decade to better educate the public on the stadium issue as it really was and try to assist the City of Detroit with making the best out of Tiger Stadium you can see why I resent your treatment towards people trying to create a positive out of a negative.
It is 110% true that the ILITCH family the City of Detroit and the DEGC have been no help working with those that had money to spend on the stadium. All this is fact which you could have concluded had you put in the effort. The Conservancy having raised nearly $400,000 through public contributions since last summer should be praised not shot down.As my mother former Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Dorothy Comstock Riley used to say if you cant set the record straight then you need to get your facts.
The $3.8 million is about helping Corktown and improving the quality of life for Detroit's oldest neighborhood......now how can you do that without a plan. Coming with it is another $11 million dollars that the City of Detroit can use......money that with a corrupt City Government running amuck as I write never would have gotten on there own.
So you best a say a big "thank you" to the Senator from all of us locals. If I were you I would stick to the problems in Lansing and leave the ballpark to me. When I write about the subject I never write in crayon but rather in black and white.
Respectfully,Peter Comstock Riley
Founder & PresidentMichigan & Trumbull,
LLC.2200 Trumbull AvenueDetroit, Michigan 48216
http://www.preservetigerstadium.com/ ************************************************************************************************************8 From: Reed, Lawrence W. To: DAVID7750@aol.comCc: PETERRILEYGPM@aol.com; LexiconSvs@aol.com; daleatkinson@msn.com; dsokolowski@charter.net; demesrey@yahoo.com; jgallagher@freepress.com; LAGUILAR@DETNEWS.COM; djosar@detnews.com; JKURTH@DETNEWS.COM; nrubin@detnews.com; DCHOWES@DETNEWS.COM; VBTHOMAS@CBS.COMSent: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 8:26 pm
Saying this federal handout would “create jobs” is naïve. If a thief goes door to door in a neighborhood grabbing all the loot he can get his hands on and then goes and spends it at the local shopping mall, I suppose you would only focus on what his spending does for the shops in the mail and never think about=2what would have happened if the thief hadn’t stolen the money in the first place.
So government magically creates wealth just by spending it?This is pre-school economics, not rational or adult thought. I’m surprised you don’t write your e-mails in crayon.
Lawrence W. Reed
President Foundation for Economic Education
Mackinac Center for PublicPolicy
30 S. BroadwayIrvington, NY 10533
Phone: 914-591-7230 Fax: 914-591-8910
Web: http://www.fee.org/
Personnel [Mackinac Center for Public Policy *************************************************************************************************************** From baseball's - 'the lady in blue'......
The important thing here, Dave, is to bring out the fact that the "precious money" doesn't go into some safe deposit box marked "Tiger Stadium." It pays the LOCAL people who will do the restoration work. It helps contractors and builders pay their employees, helps those employees put their kids through school, pay their medical bills, pay their mortgages...I could go on and on. We want people to earn that money by working on the stadium.
LaFaive, whoever he is, probably would prefer to put them on the dole and give it to them directly. Now you tell me which approach really helps the economy and the city of Detroit, and which approach has long-term value.
Karen Elizabeth Bush ---------------------------------------------------------
Mr. Reed,
I tend to ignore bombast as a general rule, but the charm and overwhelming tact of your last communication deserve considered response.
For the record, I am a political conservative, a devout capitalist, and I am the first person to scream that there is no such thing as a free lunch. We will all pay -- dearly -- for the well-meaning naivete (your word) of our president and of Socialists everywhere.
However, to be so myopic as to dismiss good because it comes out of a larger evil is not just naive -- it falls in the category of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. Tiger Stadium -- or, more properly, Navin Field -- is at this point probably worth not much more than the cost of its remaining demolition. In case you hadn't noticed, prices are down, including those of scrap.
The land under Tiger Stadium possibly could be attractive to builders sometime in the next millenium, but, for the nonce, it is absolutely worthless.The city hopes to "attract a developer." Perhaps it can choose one from the organizations queing up to redevelop the train station or the land where the Statler and Tuller once stood.
Perhaps Bobby Ferguson could suggest a name or so, or, failing that, I'm sure that Bernard Kilpatrick knows somebody who could fake it and make the city look good for a nanosecond or so.However, instead of being faced with the inevitable creation of one more very expensive parking lot, we offered an opportunity to create something good -- to let one small part of much-maligned Detroit rise like Phoenix out of the ashes.
We live in a nation determined to deny its own culture and, to a degree, its own history. In a world where whole societies derive a sense of place and identity by reveling in the cultural heritage bequeathed by preceding generations, America stands almost alone in its contempt for anything that does not have immediate (and usually commercial) significance.
Baseball is part of America's social history, a sport that reinvents itself each generation to match popular culture. Even the changing architecture of baseball stadia is a commentary both on structural advance and decline and on public expectation. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum rightly terms one its traveling exhibits, "Baseball as America."
We have in Detroit -- a city so often justifiably criticized -- a unique opportunity to preserve a small portion of the entire nation's heritage in a way that can ensure a local revenue flow from property otherwise destined to be part of an urban prairie. (Yes, that revenue flow is assured -- both from actual facility use, and from spinoff custom of area restaurants and -- in the case of youth tournaments -- hotels.)
It will take money to effect preservation, but it is important to realize that the money will not be squirreled away in some bank account, idle revenue from sale of an expensive ticket to nostalgia. The money is, deny it how you may, going to be paid to various businesses contracted to do restoration work. In short, it will be pumped directly into the state's struggling economy.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (and Herbert Hoover before him) looked to public works as an ideal way to utilize federal "stimulus" money -- ideal because construction of roads, dams, parks, and the like created jobs during their construction and provided ongoing benefit to the people who would use the facilities so constructed.
We are offered $3.8 million that would otherwise be redirected in incentive-destroying quasi-Marxist giveaways.We will use that money to help restore the original segment of a beloved public landmark, and then go on to use that restored landmark as a vehicle for instruction, entertainment, youth enrichment, and -- frankly -- as a much-needed tourist attraction.
This represents an chance that only the most inflexible, narrow-minded, and otherwise limited of individuals would eschew.
Karen Elizabeth Bush
http://www.lexiconsvs.com/ *************************************************************************************************************** hello mr.reed
You arent looking at the broader picture....that this project will create jobs...and take a abandon piece of history and restore it....so that it will produce revenue that flows back to the city, state andnation......
LaFaive should have kept silent...or know the facts first...he hasnt the slightest idea about the issues about tiger stadium......... David L. Malhalab ...................................
MCPP members,
Michael Lafaive, should not to make statements that make your organization (Mackinac Center for Public Policy - look, sound and appear ignorant, about historic Tiger Stadium.
"It's not only irresponsible to redirect these precious resources to saving Tiger Stadium," he said, "it's unfair to everyone with no voluntary connection to the stadium whatsoever. And that comes in the form of people who don't like baseball, people who don't go to the city of Detroit, people who have no desire to see what remains of the old stadium because of this rescue." free press 2/27/09.
If the City of Detroit, the DEGC and Mike Ilitch had not conspired to abandon and denigrate historic Detroit Tiger Stadium it would be a revenue producing entertainment center today and since 1999. Ilitch has taken $2-$12 million dollars, since 1999 to maintain and secure Tiger Stadium - tax payer dollars - a billionaire...He has failed to maintain and secure the Stadium and maybe under FBI investigation.
Members of the DEGC lied before members of the Detroit Planning Commission, which knew, that they were lying and rejected their proposal to demolish Tiger Stadium.
A member of the DEGC lied to the Corktown Citizens Council - telling them that Tiger Stadium was to dangerous for them to tour and make an evaluation themselves.
100,000,000 (100 million) people have come to Tiger Stadium over the years, and would come today - as they do to Lambeau Field and Fenway Park and the Field of Dreams (IA) to see and be a part of history.
Tiger Stadium is viable...It is historic, and it can be a revenue producing tourist attraction - had not those like LaFaive, taking a wrong headed and ignorant view of the Stadium.
David Malhalab, Detroit, Mi
David7750@AOL.COM
Money pitched at Tiger Stadium; group needs more Freep.com Detroit Free Press - read the story that started this discussion....click line above
***************************************************
Reed Lawrence is comparing us to thieves because of the earmark, and that's exactly how I took it!
This is wrong! The earmark for the stadium came into the picture long before the latest economic down swing. Would Lawrence be making the same comments regarding the earmark if the economy was in an upswing???
Regardless, he's not going to be convinced the $3.8 million reserved for the stadium is the right thing to do. Thank God this is America and not everyone shares in his views... at least I hope not. Dale
I do not appreciate you calling supporters of a restored Navin Field or those who understand the meaning that the stadium carries in the historic fabric of the City and the State thief's. It is both classless and unprofessional but I have come to expect such from most every individual who feels the need to put in his/her 2 cents yet never contributed a second of research to back their opinion.
I'm sorry John Gallagher chose to contact your organization for comment but then I've already given him my opinion of his story. Since my family and I have contributed nearly $500,000 dollars over the past decade to better educate the public on the stadium issue as it really was and try to assist the City of Detroit with making the best out of Tiger Stadium you can see why I resent your treatment towards people trying to create a positive out of a negative.
It is 110% true that the ILITCH family the City of Detroit and the DEGC have been no help working with those that had money to spend on the stadium. All this is fact which you could have concluded had you put in the effort. The Conservancy having raised nearly $400,000 through public contributions since last summer should be praised not shot down.As my mother former Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Dorothy Comstock Riley used to say if you cant set the record straight then you need to get your facts.
The $3.8 million is about helping Corktown and improving the quality of life for Detroit's oldest neighborhood......now how can you do that without a plan. Coming with it is another $11 million dollars that the City of Detroit can use......money that with a corrupt City Government running amuck as I write never would have gotten on there own.
So you best a say a big "thank you" to the Senator from all of us locals. If I were you I would stick to the problems in Lansing and leave the ballpark to me. When I write about the subject I never write in crayon but rather in black and white.
Respectfully,Peter Comstock Riley
Founder & PresidentMichigan & Trumbull,
LLC.2200 Trumbull AvenueDetroit, Michigan 48216
http://www.preservetigerstadium.com/ ************************************************************************************************************8 From: Reed, Lawrence W. To: DAVID7750@aol.comCc: PETERRILEYGPM@aol.com; LexiconSvs@aol.com; daleatkinson@msn.com; dsokolowski@charter.net; demesrey@yahoo.com; jgallagher@freepress.com; LAGUILAR@DETNEWS.COM; djosar@detnews.com; JKURTH@DETNEWS.COM; nrubin@detnews.com; DCHOWES@DETNEWS.COM; VBTHOMAS@CBS.COMSent: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 8:26 pm
Saying this federal handout would “create jobs” is naïve. If a thief goes door to door in a neighborhood grabbing all the loot he can get his hands on and then goes and spends it at the local shopping mall, I suppose you would only focus on what his spending does for the shops in the mail and never think about=2what would have happened if the thief hadn’t stolen the money in the first place.
So government magically creates wealth just by spending it?This is pre-school economics, not rational or adult thought. I’m surprised you don’t write your e-mails in crayon.
Lawrence W. Reed
President Foundation for Economic Education
Mackinac Center for PublicPolicy
30 S. BroadwayIrvington, NY 10533
Phone: 914-591-7230 Fax: 914-591-8910
Web: http://www.fee.org/
Personnel [Mackinac Center for Public Policy *************************************************************************************************************** From baseball's - 'the lady in blue'......
The important thing here, Dave, is to bring out the fact that the "precious money" doesn't go into some safe deposit box marked "Tiger Stadium." It pays the LOCAL people who will do the restoration work. It helps contractors and builders pay their employees, helps those employees put their kids through school, pay their medical bills, pay their mortgages...I could go on and on. We want people to earn that money by working on the stadium.
LaFaive, whoever he is, probably would prefer to put them on the dole and give it to them directly. Now you tell me which approach really helps the economy and the city of Detroit, and which approach has long-term value.
Karen Elizabeth Bush ---------------------------------------------------------
Mr. Reed,
I tend to ignore bombast as a general rule, but the charm and overwhelming tact of your last communication deserve considered response.
For the record, I am a political conservative, a devout capitalist, and I am the first person to scream that there is no such thing as a free lunch. We will all pay -- dearly -- for the well-meaning naivete (your word) of our president and of Socialists everywhere.
However, to be so myopic as to dismiss good because it comes out of a larger evil is not just naive -- it falls in the category of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. Tiger Stadium -- or, more properly, Navin Field -- is at this point probably worth not much more than the cost of its remaining demolition. In case you hadn't noticed, prices are down, including those of scrap.
The land under Tiger Stadium possibly could be attractive to builders sometime in the next millenium, but, for the nonce, it is absolutely worthless.The city hopes to "attract a developer." Perhaps it can choose one from the organizations queing up to redevelop the train station or the land where the Statler and Tuller once stood.
Perhaps Bobby Ferguson could suggest a name or so, or, failing that, I'm sure that Bernard Kilpatrick knows somebody who could fake it and make the city look good for a nanosecond or so.However, instead of being faced with the inevitable creation of one more very expensive parking lot, we offered an opportunity to create something good -- to let one small part of much-maligned Detroit rise like Phoenix out of the ashes.
We live in a nation determined to deny its own culture and, to a degree, its own history. In a world where whole societies derive a sense of place and identity by reveling in the cultural heritage bequeathed by preceding generations, America stands almost alone in its contempt for anything that does not have immediate (and usually commercial) significance.
Baseball is part of America's social history, a sport that reinvents itself each generation to match popular culture. Even the changing architecture of baseball stadia is a commentary both on structural advance and decline and on public expectation. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum rightly terms one its traveling exhibits, "Baseball as America."
We have in Detroit -- a city so often justifiably criticized -- a unique opportunity to preserve a small portion of the entire nation's heritage in a way that can ensure a local revenue flow from property otherwise destined to be part of an urban prairie. (Yes, that revenue flow is assured -- both from actual facility use, and from spinoff custom of area restaurants and -- in the case of youth tournaments -- hotels.)
It will take money to effect preservation, but it is important to realize that the money will not be squirreled away in some bank account, idle revenue from sale of an expensive ticket to nostalgia. The money is, deny it how you may, going to be paid to various businesses contracted to do restoration work. In short, it will be pumped directly into the state's struggling economy.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (and Herbert Hoover before him) looked to public works as an ideal way to utilize federal "stimulus" money -- ideal because construction of roads, dams, parks, and the like created jobs during their construction and provided ongoing benefit to the people who would use the facilities so constructed.
We are offered $3.8 million that would otherwise be redirected in incentive-destroying quasi-Marxist giveaways.We will use that money to help restore the original segment of a beloved public landmark, and then go on to use that restored landmark as a vehicle for instruction, entertainment, youth enrichment, and -- frankly -- as a much-needed tourist attraction.
This represents an chance that only the most inflexible, narrow-minded, and otherwise limited of individuals would eschew.
Karen Elizabeth Bush
http://www.lexiconsvs.com/ *************************************************************************************************************** hello mr.reed
You arent looking at the broader picture....that this project will create jobs...and take a abandon piece of history and restore it....so that it will produce revenue that flows back to the city, state andnation......
LaFaive should have kept silent...or know the facts first...he hasnt the slightest idea about the issues about tiger stadium......... David L. Malhalab ...................................
MCPP members,
Michael Lafaive, should not to make statements that make your organization (Mackinac Center for Public Policy - look, sound and appear ignorant, about historic Tiger Stadium.
"It's not only irresponsible to redirect these precious resources to saving Tiger Stadium," he said, "it's unfair to everyone with no voluntary connection to the stadium whatsoever. And that comes in the form of people who don't like baseball, people who don't go to the city of Detroit, people who have no desire to see what remains of the old stadium because of this rescue." free press 2/27/09.
If the City of Detroit, the DEGC and Mike Ilitch had not conspired to abandon and denigrate historic Detroit Tiger Stadium it would be a revenue producing entertainment center today and since 1999. Ilitch has taken $2-$12 million dollars, since 1999 to maintain and secure Tiger Stadium - tax payer dollars - a billionaire...He has failed to maintain and secure the Stadium and maybe under FBI investigation.
Members of the DEGC lied before members of the Detroit Planning Commission, which knew, that they were lying and rejected their proposal to demolish Tiger Stadium.
A member of the DEGC lied to the Corktown Citizens Council - telling them that Tiger Stadium was to dangerous for them to tour and make an evaluation themselves.
100,000,000 (100 million) people have come to Tiger Stadium over the years, and would come today - as they do to Lambeau Field and Fenway Park and the Field of Dreams (IA) to see and be a part of history.
Tiger Stadium is viable...It is historic, and it can be a revenue producing tourist attraction - had not those like LaFaive, taking a wrong headed and ignorant view of the Stadium.
David Malhalab, Detroit, Mi
David7750@AOL.COM
Money pitched at Tiger Stadium; group needs more Freep.com Detroit Free Press - read the story that started this discussion....click line above
***************************************************
Reed Lawrence is comparing us to thieves because of the earmark, and that's exactly how I took it!
This is wrong! The earmark for the stadium came into the picture long before the latest economic down swing. Would Lawrence be making the same comments regarding the earmark if the economy was in an upswing???
Regardless, he's not going to be convinced the $3.8 million reserved for the stadium is the right thing to do. Thank God this is America and not everyone shares in his views... at least I hope not. Dale
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
COBO HALL, DETROIT CITY COUNCIL FAILS DETROIT, STATE MUST TAKEOVER DETROIT, A FAILED CITY
Cobo Hall is a millstone around the city of detroit. it is deteriorating facility that the city hasn't properly maintained. the lower level is disgusting and disgraceful example of what Detroit has become, a city devoid quality political leadership - a city that desperately needs leadership, but a city that continually falls short.
The defeat of the cobo hall expansion proposal should be the final straw that pushes the state of Michigan into a takeover of Detroit, it showed that Detroit city council aren't capable of separating political expediency from the real needs of Detroit.
Detroit is $300 - $700 million dollars in DEBT, and cobo was another drain on city finances. with the cobo expansion offered a chance that Cobo Hall could be renovated, rehabbed so that it could be restored as a jewel of the city - rather than an scarred neglected imitation of a quality convention facility.
Hotel - convention and other small business owners must now speak out and demand better leadership. Detroit residents that rallied to the false siren song of failed politicians, that they were saving a jewel and standing up against suburban interests, must be made to understand that they have been mislead, lied to and used as pawns that doesn't serve their best interests ..
Courageous council members: Kwame Kenyatta, Brenda Jones, and Sheila Cockrel should be commended for trying to move Detroit forward, and rejecting - the race card. Detroiters should oust, recall these failed council members: Monica Conyers (maybe the feds will oust here), JoAnn Watson, Martha Reeves, Alberta Tinsley-Talabi and Barbara Rose Collins should condemned for voting against the Cobo proposal and against the best interest of Detroit.
They should have rejected - the race card - the siren song that has played and replayed for over 30 years - that whites / suburbanites are trying to steal Detroit jewels.
The defeat of the cobo hall expansion proposal should be the final straw that pushes the state of Michigan into a takeover of Detroit, it showed that Detroit city council aren't capable of separating political expediency from the real needs of Detroit.
Detroit is $300 - $700 million dollars in DEBT, and cobo was another drain on city finances. with the cobo expansion offered a chance that Cobo Hall could be renovated, rehabbed so that it could be restored as a jewel of the city - rather than an scarred neglected imitation of a quality convention facility.
Hotel - convention and other small business owners must now speak out and demand better leadership. Detroit residents that rallied to the false siren song of failed politicians, that they were saving a jewel and standing up against suburban interests, must be made to understand that they have been mislead, lied to and used as pawns that doesn't serve their best interests ..
Courageous council members: Kwame Kenyatta, Brenda Jones, and Sheila Cockrel should be commended for trying to move Detroit forward, and rejecting - the race card. Detroiters should oust, recall these failed council members: Monica Conyers (maybe the feds will oust here), JoAnn Watson, Martha Reeves, Alberta Tinsley-Talabi and Barbara Rose Collins should condemned for voting against the Cobo proposal and against the best interest of Detroit.
They should have rejected - the race card - the siren song that has played and replayed for over 30 years - that whites / suburbanites are trying to steal Detroit jewels.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION AND US GOVERNMENT MUST STOP POLICE KILLINGS, SELLING GUNS TO TERRORISTS...
The US Government and the National Rifle Association must stand up and stop the sale of assault weapons and guns to Mexican drug cartels, along the US border. This situation is a national security issue - more dangerous to US residents than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Rifle Association members who own guns stores and sponsor gun shows in border states are supplying 90% of assault weapons and guns used by ruthless and murderous Mexican drug cartels / gangs to kill civilians, soldiers and police officers.
There is a drug war going on in Mexico, which is spreading into the US towns around the country with kidnappings and killings on the rise. Drug cartels are ‘terrorist organizations’ and NRA members are supplying the weapons to them, because of lack US laws and enforcement. Tens of thousands of US bought weapons are being smuggled into Mexico, including versions of the AK-47, .50 caliber, assault weapons converted to full automatic and a Belgian made pistol the ‘cop killer’ – ‘mata policia’ (which bullets can penetrate bullet proof vests) are the cartels weapons of choice. Texas gun stores are the largest supplier of weapons to the drug cartels terrorists. NRA members are ‘war profiteers’ and this must stop.
A Mexican drug cartel, in Ciudad Juarez, a town across from El Paso,Texas, issued a warning that they would ‘kill a police officer every 48 hours’ and they killed a police officer and a jail guard, until the police chief resigned. He did - fearing more killings and didn’t want to risk his men – but the police officers are still at risk as the cartels are trying to take over police departments. Lists of police officers names have been left around towns – as a warning to quit – or be killed.
Over 2,000 law enforcement officials have been killed in Mexico during the last 15 months, 50 police officers in Ciudad Juarez. The NRA and US government must help stop the war – the violence – the killings.
With Spring / Easter breaks coming up, thousands of US citizens lives will be in danger as they vacation in Mexican resort towns – where violence is growing – in Can Cun homicides are up at an alarming rate. The US State Department has issued a travel warning about the rising violence. Students instead of dodging beach balls – maybe dodging bullets if they venture outside of protected hotel areas.
The National Rifle Association must use its influence on their members to stop the gun sales to Mexicans, and with Congress to pass an Assault Weapons Ban.
The US Government must stop the smuggling of guns into Mexico and Congress must pass an Assault Weapons Ban – or the Mexican drug terrorists will spread the war wider and wider into the US and place more US residents lives will be in danger.
US police departments - its Chiefs, the National Association of Police Officers, all police unions and associations, must stand up - in solidarity with Mexican police officers and demand and Assault Weapons Ban, and more money and officers to fight crime.
National Rifle Association members who own guns stores and sponsor gun shows in border states are supplying 90% of assault weapons and guns used by ruthless and murderous Mexican drug cartels / gangs to kill civilians, soldiers and police officers.
There is a drug war going on in Mexico, which is spreading into the US towns around the country with kidnappings and killings on the rise. Drug cartels are ‘terrorist organizations’ and NRA members are supplying the weapons to them, because of lack US laws and enforcement. Tens of thousands of US bought weapons are being smuggled into Mexico, including versions of the AK-47, .50 caliber, assault weapons converted to full automatic and a Belgian made pistol the ‘cop killer’ – ‘mata policia’ (which bullets can penetrate bullet proof vests) are the cartels weapons of choice. Texas gun stores are the largest supplier of weapons to the drug cartels terrorists. NRA members are ‘war profiteers’ and this must stop.
A Mexican drug cartel, in Ciudad Juarez, a town across from El Paso,Texas, issued a warning that they would ‘kill a police officer every 48 hours’ and they killed a police officer and a jail guard, until the police chief resigned. He did - fearing more killings and didn’t want to risk his men – but the police officers are still at risk as the cartels are trying to take over police departments. Lists of police officers names have been left around towns – as a warning to quit – or be killed.
Over 2,000 law enforcement officials have been killed in Mexico during the last 15 months, 50 police officers in Ciudad Juarez. The NRA and US government must help stop the war – the violence – the killings.
With Spring / Easter breaks coming up, thousands of US citizens lives will be in danger as they vacation in Mexican resort towns – where violence is growing – in Can Cun homicides are up at an alarming rate. The US State Department has issued a travel warning about the rising violence. Students instead of dodging beach balls – maybe dodging bullets if they venture outside of protected hotel areas.
The National Rifle Association must use its influence on their members to stop the gun sales to Mexicans, and with Congress to pass an Assault Weapons Ban.
The US Government must stop the smuggling of guns into Mexico and Congress must pass an Assault Weapons Ban – or the Mexican drug terrorists will spread the war wider and wider into the US and place more US residents lives will be in danger.
US police departments - its Chiefs, the National Association of Police Officers, all police unions and associations, must stand up - in solidarity with Mexican police officers and demand and Assault Weapons Ban, and more money and officers to fight crime.
CUT DETROIT CITY COUNCIL / SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS - NOW
to michigan legislators - detroit residents.......
detroit is $300 - 700 million dollars in debt
the detroit school system needs an appointed state financial overseer
detroit has lost 600,000 residents....
Under Mayor Cockrel, the City of Detroit spends $15.4 million to operate the nine member City Council and another $11.8 million to operate the Mayor's Office itself. However, the Detroit Fire Department routinely has to do without the equipment and manpower that they need to do their jobs effectively. There aren't enought police officers and a need for more precinct stations and jail space.
you need to take action - reduce the number of city council member to 7 and school board members to 7....or less - to make them more efficient and to save tax payer dollars....
detroit is $300 - 700 million dollars in debt
the detroit school system needs an appointed state financial overseer
detroit has lost 600,000 residents....
Under Mayor Cockrel, the City of Detroit spends $15.4 million to operate the nine member City Council and another $11.8 million to operate the Mayor's Office itself. However, the Detroit Fire Department routinely has to do without the equipment and manpower that they need to do their jobs effectively. There aren't enought police officers and a need for more precinct stations and jail space.
you need to take action - reduce the number of city council member to 7 and school board members to 7....or less - to make them more efficient and to save tax payer dollars....
DETROIT CHIEF OF POLICE BARREN - NEED TO DO THIS - NOW
September 19, 2008 / February 14, 2009
Dear Chief Barren,
Whether you are Chief for months or years, you can have a dramatic impact on the Department, crime in Detroit and the residents of Detroit, in a very short time by:
Implement a 'Verified Response System' for B&E alarms - this would allow officers to respond to crimes in progress - remove their security guard duties....and improve response times ....
Replace 'Crisnet' the complicated, time consuming and unnecessary main police report that officers have been burdened with.
Begin talks with Wayne County about building a new Jail / Medical facility that Detroit needs - because Detroit lacks jail space and is spending millions of dollars on unnecessary medical costs for prisoners.
Raise the hiring and training standards of Department: raise to 21 the hiring age, require two (2) years of college (or military service w/a psychological evaluation). Recruit at black colleges, and local colleges.
Detroit needs new police precinct stations, a new police headquarters and an end to the nepotism, favoritism and cronyism, end the DOJ oversight.
But the most important thing you can do - is get Money. You should fly immediately to Washington and meet with the Michigan Congressional Delegation and tell them to get Detroit money to hire, train and equip - 500 police officers - immediately.
You need to have grant writers working 24/7 to get Homeland Security money, for new hires, training, a mounted section, a harbormaster unit, new scout cars, computers, police headquarters and new police stations.
We are a border city - we deserve the money. Our National Security requires it. You must make it clear that if Detroit doesn’t get the money - that you can't comply with the DOJ decrees, can't properly protect Detroit residents or police offices and that the Feds should then take over the Detroit Police Department and pay the bills - something NO one wants to happen.
Get to work Chief Barren - best wishes..I am here for you. David Malhalab, Sgt Retired
Dear Chief Barren,
Whether you are Chief for months or years, you can have a dramatic impact on the Department, crime in Detroit and the residents of Detroit, in a very short time by:
Implement a 'Verified Response System' for B&E alarms - this would allow officers to respond to crimes in progress - remove their security guard duties....and improve response times ....
Replace 'Crisnet' the complicated, time consuming and unnecessary main police report that officers have been burdened with.
Begin talks with Wayne County about building a new Jail / Medical facility that Detroit needs - because Detroit lacks jail space and is spending millions of dollars on unnecessary medical costs for prisoners.
Raise the hiring and training standards of Department: raise to 21 the hiring age, require two (2) years of college (or military service w/a psychological evaluation). Recruit at black colleges, and local colleges.
Detroit needs new police precinct stations, a new police headquarters and an end to the nepotism, favoritism and cronyism, end the DOJ oversight.
But the most important thing you can do - is get Money. You should fly immediately to Washington and meet with the Michigan Congressional Delegation and tell them to get Detroit money to hire, train and equip - 500 police officers - immediately.
You need to have grant writers working 24/7 to get Homeland Security money, for new hires, training, a mounted section, a harbormaster unit, new scout cars, computers, police headquarters and new police stations.
We are a border city - we deserve the money. Our National Security requires it. You must make it clear that if Detroit doesn’t get the money - that you can't comply with the DOJ decrees, can't properly protect Detroit residents or police offices and that the Feds should then take over the Detroit Police Department and pay the bills - something NO one wants to happen.
Get to work Chief Barren - best wishes..I am here for you. David Malhalab, Sgt Retired
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
OH SHUT UP, SARAH PALIN! McCAIN / PALIN COMMUNIST PRESIDENTIAL DUO?
OH SHUT UP - ALREADY, Sarah Palin.
Failed Republican Vice President and Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin is still spouting ignorant robo comments about President Elect Obama and poisoning the era of cooperation.
In an interview 11-12-08 with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, she says she is still willing to debate the William Ayers-Obama connection - she would want you to believe that they are domestic terrorist duo, still formenting plans to bomb US buildings. She and John McCain, who still stands by his most ignorant selection of a Vice President, have some members of the right wing Republican Party - still - believing that Obams is a domestic terrorist because he served on a Republican founded philanthropic organization with Ayers. Some right wing Republicans encouraged by fanatical right wing radio commentators, still believe that Obama is a Muslim, a terrorist, that he is not an American citizen.
Sarah Palin is still feeding the hungry for ignorance right wing Republicans. John McCain and other emerging forward thinking Republicans should sit her down and say - Shut Up... educate yourself and then speak. She who railed against the liberal media - is taking advantage of the willing media, to enhance her image, to establish her Palin 2012 campaign - as any candidate would, but she is ignorant and a media celebrity only because of her mistaken selection as VP, and because she is 'hot' and ignorant ( a male wet dream)...Those McCain advisors who know of her ignorance and rogue behavior - should publically ID themselves and tell the truth..so the American people know the truth.
If Palin and other fantatical right wing Republicans want us to believe their false propoganda against Obama - maybe we should make up some false ignorant propoganda about McCain/Palin - like:
McCain is a secret Communist ...brainwashed and indoctrinated to the greatness of Communism during his five years living with Communists - ignore the fact that he was tortured endured extreme hardships as a prisoner of war - believe the theory or fallacy, that he was secretly selected because of his famous father and his position as a future POW hero - to become the first Communist President of the United States, oh they waited a long time for him to get the nomination - and oh he failed them - miseralby.. and
You get Sarah Palin as a bonus. She lives only 55+ miles from the Russian border. Russians could easily slipped across the border at night and sent her subliminal messages or radio messages while she slept - about the joy of being a Communist...wow...how is that for ..the ignorant masses of fanatical left wing liberals...
This has to STOP, intelligent people must speak out and educate and enlighten those that need help to bridge the gap of fanatical thought. We have a chance to restore Amerian prestige and honor around the world...we can't let Sarah Palin and others to discredit President Elect Obama before he is sworn in - before he has a chance to change America - to make us all proud, to make us respected around the world - again...Give him a chance.
Sarah Palin and all right wing and left wing fanatics shut up, and listen - let deeds be the voice of a new American renewal.
Failed Republican Vice President and Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin is still spouting ignorant robo comments about President Elect Obama and poisoning the era of cooperation.
In an interview 11-12-08 with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, she says she is still willing to debate the William Ayers-Obama connection - she would want you to believe that they are domestic terrorist duo, still formenting plans to bomb US buildings. She and John McCain, who still stands by his most ignorant selection of a Vice President, have some members of the right wing Republican Party - still - believing that Obams is a domestic terrorist because he served on a Republican founded philanthropic organization with Ayers. Some right wing Republicans encouraged by fanatical right wing radio commentators, still believe that Obama is a Muslim, a terrorist, that he is not an American citizen.
Sarah Palin is still feeding the hungry for ignorance right wing Republicans. John McCain and other emerging forward thinking Republicans should sit her down and say - Shut Up... educate yourself and then speak. She who railed against the liberal media - is taking advantage of the willing media, to enhance her image, to establish her Palin 2012 campaign - as any candidate would, but she is ignorant and a media celebrity only because of her mistaken selection as VP, and because she is 'hot' and ignorant ( a male wet dream)...Those McCain advisors who know of her ignorance and rogue behavior - should publically ID themselves and tell the truth..so the American people know the truth.
If Palin and other fantatical right wing Republicans want us to believe their false propoganda against Obama - maybe we should make up some false ignorant propoganda about McCain/Palin - like:
McCain is a secret Communist ...brainwashed and indoctrinated to the greatness of Communism during his five years living with Communists - ignore the fact that he was tortured endured extreme hardships as a prisoner of war - believe the theory or fallacy, that he was secretly selected because of his famous father and his position as a future POW hero - to become the first Communist President of the United States, oh they waited a long time for him to get the nomination - and oh he failed them - miseralby.. and
You get Sarah Palin as a bonus. She lives only 55+ miles from the Russian border. Russians could easily slipped across the border at night and sent her subliminal messages or radio messages while she slept - about the joy of being a Communist...wow...how is that for ..the ignorant masses of fanatical left wing liberals...
This has to STOP, intelligent people must speak out and educate and enlighten those that need help to bridge the gap of fanatical thought. We have a chance to restore Amerian prestige and honor around the world...we can't let Sarah Palin and others to discredit President Elect Obama before he is sworn in - before he has a chance to change America - to make us all proud, to make us respected around the world - again...Give him a chance.
Sarah Palin and all right wing and left wing fanatics shut up, and listen - let deeds be the voice of a new American renewal.
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